Megadeth are cooking up plans for the 20th anniversary of "Youthanasia" record, as frontman Dave Mustaine is asking fans for their personal favorites off the classic 1994 effort.

"We have loads of work to do to get ready for the 'Youthanasia' anniversary ... slowly, but surely!" Dave said via Facebook, along with a question: "What are your fave songs?"

Back in October, Mustaine told the Examiner that the odds of Megadeth performing the album live in full are quite high. "Very big chance," he said. "In fact funny that you mention that, we were just talking about the part where David Ellefson used to play the extra floor tom during 'Reckoning Day,' because the video we did for that song was filmed in Finland and Finland is right next to Russia, so the taxi cab I was in was an old cab from the Russian days back during the cold war."

In general, following 2010's "Rust in Peace: Live" and last year's "Countdown to Extinction: Live," "Youthanasia: Live" seems like an obvious next step.

But back to Dave's question - what are your favorite "Youthanasia" songs?

That's a bold statement. I always felt like Rust in Peace and Peace Sells were their best albums by far. I remember getting Youthanasia the day it came out and being pretty disappointed. Looking back it has it's moments but it can't touch anything they did from Countdown back. 1994 was a funny time for metal bands... a lot of them (Megadeth included) were trying to figure out how to remain relevant so they really changed their sounds to compete with alternative rock bands that everyone was into at the time. Interesting album? Yes."Opus Magnum"? I don't know...

I still think it's one of their best. Unlike the albums that follow it, Youthanasia was dark, heavy and rocking. It felt like a natural progression of Megadeth's sound It's in that fine line between heavy metal and hard rock whereas albums like Risk and Super Collider are just bad records that sound like they're trying too hard to be 'rock' albums.

I think it's Rust in Peace, personally, but I can see the appeal Youthanasia has in that argument. I'm upset So Far, So Good...So what? Never gets any play in these conversations. Sure, its got a couple bad songs in there, but that things opening 3 tracks are so much FUN. And hook in mouth? To me its one of their most underrated songs.

Killing Road, Train of Consequences, Victory and Addicted to Chaos have some damn TASTY licks and solos. I'd love to hear them again.
Youthanasia has some of Dave's best vocal performances, I wonder how he'll cope singing them again, even in D tuning (which is only half a step down from most of the songs in this album apart from Killing Road).

Well said. The style may differ considerably from some of their other albums, but it is a fantastic release with consistently strong songs. A question I will ask is: which is the better album--Youthanasia or Countdown to Extinction? They are quite similar in some ways, featuring slower tempos and a stripped-down style.

Rust In Peace is their masterpiece--no question about it. A progressive thrash album feat. the tasteful, neo-classical widdly shit from the supremely talented and virtuostic Friedman. Everything aspect of that album is phucking brilliant. \m/

Addicted to Chaos is one of those songs that you cant find a live version anywhere, it will be quite interesting. Family Tree and Blood of heroes are my favorite tracks, but at least Ive seen a couple of videos from Japan in 95 hahaha

I remember getting "Youthanasia" the day it came out and being disappointed. That was the album that made me feel like Megadeth was finally past their prime. However, listening back to it many years later I appreciate it a little more. "Reckoning Day", "Blood of Heroes" and "Elysian Fields" stood out. It's no Rust In Peace (or as good as anything up until Countdown) but looking back it's a fairly solid (if thrashless) heavy metal album.

For me Youthanasia was a very special album. I'll be the first to agree that Rust or Countdown were prob better albums. But Youth will always be my fav. I saw them in 2010 and they played the whole rust album. I saw them in 2012 but they didn't play the whole countdown album

Youthanasia always felt a bit front-loaded to me. It starts off with four awesome songs and then it bogs down until you get to Victory (which has the same bassline as Holier Than Thou by...well, you know who). There are just a few too many mid-tempo tracks in the middle. Having said that, I like the album a lot more than I did when it first came out, and I find myself singing Blood of Heroes and Elysian Fields sometimes.

Great album. The comparatively simpler style of riffing on the album is consistently phucking fantastic! Tracks? I'll go with Reckoning Day, Train of Consequences, Addicted to Chaos, and the heavy titular track. \m/

This is my favorite Megadeth album. If not favorite, than its definitely tied for first with whatever other Megadeth album fits my mood that day. The remaster sucks, if you do anything re-release the original album with some cool bonus tracks/live tracks or just put the original back in print. Songwriting and solos on this album are amazing. These are some of Dave's best written/structured songs he ever wrote. As far as favorites go, I love every song on this album, but I guess I would have to go with 'Elysian Fields', 'Addicted to Chaos', 'The Killing Road', 'I Thought I knew It all', and 'Youthanasia'. This album gets so much hate for being one of Megadeth's best and one of Metal's best albums. Especially for this album being released in the mid 90's.